New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-01

| The Thistle is like high stepping horse-shc
| captivates all beho1ers. As she maneuvres
around the starting line everybody thinks her the
pfettest thing aioat. She has the best cement
| on her keel that ever was invented. Her decks
are polished down with a brilianoc that our
Yankee sloop does not pretend to approach. Her
| iron work is beautifully fnished-wc were busy
| fighting the rebels and our sailors were lodging
Irivatccrs from British ports while the clyde
builders were learning how TO make iron
boats. and it is admitted that have not yet
caught up with them. The Thiste's crew are
superbly trained and they are splendid fellows
TO look at. Tho Volunteer has no patent cement
The joints OF her iron work are not perfect, AID
the riyets sometimes rough. The deck may
seer. to foreign critics little untdy, and the
crew n little free and easy. Still she gets there
just the same.
The next time any man cries Fire. IN a
theatre when there is fire, he should be taken
outside aud the nearest irecngne summoned
TO play on him.
British American Association has been formed
in this city also TO promote the naturalization Of
British subjects who have made this country
their home. All the larger cities now have these
organizations, which will bring us a valuable
class Of citizens. The work should go on The
man who enjoys the benefits OF citizenship should
also bear It's burdens.
Let US be modest about the victory. Perhaps
We ought TO have beaten the Thistle worse.
The aqucduct contractors not afraid TO
claim the earth but they apparently think it
best 10 get 1t by peccmeal. They ask the city
now TO pay them 81 900, 900 for extra work on
tho aquc1uot, the extra work consisting in
knocking down more rock or eXcavating more
earth than is necessary. The city does not ask
that this bc done, and mention is made or IL
in the contract, but the contractors do it all the
same and want the city 10 pay them for it.
In addition they have Ind seven months
extension on contracts without cost, although
the contracts provided for heavy fines for every
days delay above the contract time. Controller
IOew Is not disposed to let the contractors have
their way in these matters; and he is right
about 1t.
Irving Hall threatens TO FIGHT. We shall
look with the utmost complacency while our
friends the enemy form ring
We trust everybody will remember the perfectly
natural desire Of our canny Scotch friend, De-
slgner Watson, that his property rights in the
model OF the Thistle be protected. lilo was
compelled by the rules Of the contest to deposit
model of the Thistle with the New-York Yacht
Club, but he has carefully pointed out that
no one has the right to copy it without his
PERMISSION. We trust no one will. lie has made
IL pretty boat and q fast One-faster than anything
else on the eastern side Of the Atlantic; and he
is entitled to all the glory and profit Of IT,
Al A,,or
A reasoning mah who undertakes to digest an
Anarchist puts an entering wedge OF terrific
lower within himself
The President careering through the land in
$500, 900 train of is strongly suggestive OF
jefferson tying his nag to O post outside OF
Washington and footing IL into tie capital 70 the
ceremony OF his Inauguration Governor Hill |
often visits fairs in ordinary car, and refuses
10 be carried from the station to the hotel in a
carriage. Grover and David apply their Jeffer-
sonan principles differently.
"1he Dubuque Telegraph finds fault with
our views upon the petitions for mercy to the |
Anarchists 1t seems to us, on the other hand,
most encouraging sign that those views have |
met with the universal approval Of the press. |
The article specially referred to was telcgraphcd |
almost in full to all parts Of the country and this
is the first dissent we have heard The animus |
Of this paper il fully shown when it declares that
The TRIBUNE and other leading journals want |
the Anarchists hanged In the hope that 1.-THE |
spectacle will strike terror to the hearts Of |
wage -carners, deter from resorting to the strike |
us a means Of securing fur treatment In future, |
and render them more submissive to the exactions |
of selfish employers There can be no faIsehood |
more pernicous and moro shameful than that |
which identifies the Chicago Anarchists with |
honest laborers. They were not "wagc-earncrs." |
They were. as class. as idle as they were |
vicious. Their victims. the poor murdered police
men, whose widows and orphans were thrown |
helpless upon the world, were wage-earners. 1t |
might be we'll to bestow o little sympathy upon |
those who depended for their daily bread upon |
the wages which were stopped by the murderous |
act the Anarchists consrired to commit.
One inspector Of the Health Department is not |
likely to be troubled soon again by would-be |